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Dates: during 1970-1979
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General "Wild Bill" Donovan, who died 20 years ago, was the Wall Street lawyer whom President Franklin Roosevelt commissioned to set up an intelligence service in 1941, five months before Pearl Harbor. At the time, the U.S. had no formal espionage arm. Snooping had been in disrepute; a decade earlier...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Washington: A Pride of Former Spooks | 11/12/1979 | See Source »

For months they have been assembling their volunteer armies and their mercenary advisers. They have been filling their coffers with treasure for the long campaign. In Los Angeles and Houston, in Boston and in Washington, they have assembled in their homes for secret meetings, planning strategy, discussing tactics, analyzing their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: May the Best Man Win | 11/12/1979 | See Source »

"This has absolutely been our best team effort this season. The girls really bounced back for this one and ran beautifully," coach Pappy Hunt said of the Crimson women's cross coutry team's second-place, 75-point finish in the Ivy Championships yesterday at Fairmount Park, Pa

Author: By Jack A. Laschever, | Title: Harriers Nab Second in Ivies | 11/10/1979 | See Source »

For decades, people have been puzzled by just what a "Crimson" is. Animal, vegetable or mineral? It is none; and the search for a Harvard mascot has grown futile. Even if one were found, a Crimson would probably turn out to be some ridiculous-looking nurd approximation with grand horns...

Author: By Mark D. Director, | Title: Religious Dissension Afoot | 11/10/1979 | See Source »

During the night, A, sleeping with B, dreams of C. C stands at the furthest extremity or (if the image is considered two-dimensionally) apogee of a curved driveway, perhaps a dream-refraction of the driveway of the house that had once been their shared home. . .The sleep of B...

Author: By Susan C. Faludi, | Title: The Meaning of a Missing Sock | 11/10/1979 | See Source »

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